Palestine Post and Researching November 1945

I realised the other day when looking through the first draft of the third book in my trilogy that no scene takes place in November 1945 and as far as I was aware, nothing interesting happened in Palestine that month. Then I realised that I spent most of that month on board the liner Caernarvon Castle, travelling from Durban to Suez. Nowadays people travelling on liners may be able to keep in touch with what is happening anywhere in the world, but not so in 1945.
Even when we had landed and in Suez and had travelled on to Palestine to meet my father, whom we had not seen for two and a half years, for the rest of November I was too immersed in settling into our new home on Mt Carmel and into my new school.

Once I realised why I had no interesting memories, I looked through a few timelines on the internet and found one that claimed terrorists had bombed CID HQ in Jerusalem on November 25th.
As is my custom when finding an entry so close to home I brought up the relevant issues of the Palestine Post to read reports and comments. I found nothing in November about the blowing up of any CID station but as I skimmed through a story emerged of escalating violemce culminating in the most deplorable happenings in the Hefer Valley area. It was hard to believe that such a disaster could have occured while I was in Palestine and that it had passed me by.It would not have done so two and a half years earlier, nor would it have done so a few weeks later when I had once more become accustomed to discussing current affairs with my father.

A word here about the Palestine Post. It was an English language paper published by a Jewish firm but read by all the British, because its front pages and editorials not only concentrated on internationl news but also reported on British football matches and county cricket. It covered Palestinian affairs as well, of course and in the least overtly biased way of any Palestinian paper.
Comparing it to contemporary English papers, it had more in common with the Manchester Guardian than the Daily Mirror.
It is now readily accessible to all. Formerly, if I wanted to read an item in the Palestine Post, I had to travel to the British newspaper library at Colindale where I might wait hours for a microfiche reader to become available.
Now however, I just click on the favourites button on my computer and I can browse through all the extant issues.
This is thanks to the University of Tel Aviv's Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project , established by Prof. Yaron Tzur. In personal terms I am extremely grateful to the technology manager, Shaul A. Duke (fka Shaul Garcia), who has helped me so often when I changed to a new browser.